Kelly breaks silence on ‘Bombshell’
Megyn Kelly is finally speaking out about the movie “Bombshell,” which explores sexual harassment at her former employer, Fox News.
“I wasn’t sure if I wanted to say anything re ‘Bombshell,’ a film re sex harass. at Fox,” the lawyer-turnedanchor tweeted Thursday ahead of posting the nearly 30-minute segment on her YouTube and IGTV channels. “But in the end I wanted the women who lived it to have the last word.”
Kelly is portrayed in “Bombshell” by Charlize Theron, who said she didn’t talk with the anchor before doing the film because she thought it would put too much pressure on both of them.
In the video, Kelly had a negative reaction to a scene in the film where Margot Robbie’s character essentially blames Kelly’s silence for the continuing harassment, and Theron’s Kelly responds, “Look around, snowflake. How do you think a woman gets a prime-time Fox show?”
Kelly claims she still wouldn’t cut the scene from the film because it represents a real regret for her in her career. “I’ve looked back on my own life, every moment from that moment forward and I do wish I had done more. Even though I was powerless, even though it would’ve been a suicidal move for me careerwise, what if I had just said, ‘screw it?’ ” she said.
As for the infamous “spin” in Fox CEO Roger Ailes’ office, Kelly, who left Fox News in 2017, admitted she did it: “I know people think it’s like, ‘Oh, you had to spin around,’ but I remember feeling like ... I put myself through school. I was offered a partnership at Jones Day, one of the best law firms in the world. I argued before federal courts of appeal all over the nation. I came here, I’m covering the United States Supreme Court. I graduated with honors from all my programs — and now he wants me to twirl?
“And I did it,“Kelly said. “If you don’t get how demeaning that is, I can’t help you.”